Sedan, Cedar Vale, Peru: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Chautauqua County, the Peru-Sedan field and the southwest corner of the Cherokee Basin.
Chautauqua County is where the Cherokee Basin runs out against the Oklahoma line, and the royalties here come in two flavors: Peru-Sedan oil that has been paying since 1900, and coalbed gas that mostly stopped paying in the last ten years. We buy the first kind happily and price the second kind honestly.
What produces here. Kansas Geological Survey production for 2025: 109,874 barrels of oil from 918 wells and 18,857 Mcf of gas from 10 wells, and 50,512 barrels and 4,724 Mcf for January through June 2026. Oil was 171,735 barrels as recently as 2019, so the county is sliding, not collapsing. Nearly all of it comes from the Peru-Sedan field, with Elgin, Landon-Floyd, Hylton, Oliver, Hale-Inge and the Cherokee Basin Coal Area leases behind it, producing from the Englevale sand, Mississippian, Wyandotte and the Pennsylvanian coals. Operators on checks and in the county records include Jones Oil Exploration, Kansas Energy Company, Keen Oil, John and Patricia Elmore, Jones & Buck Development, RedBud Oil & Gas Operating, Z & L Oil, Lone Wolf Oil & Gas and Thomas Wade Patteson. The Kansas Corporation Commission plugged 218 orphaned wells here through September 2024 and lists a further 103-well Chautauqua and Elk project for the formula-grant round.
Whatever you own here, producing royalties, non-producing acreage, or an inherited fraction split among family, we will identify it from whatever paperwork you have, value it off the actual wells and activity, and show you the reasoning with the offer. Free, no obligation, and no pressure: if keeping it is the right answer, we will say so. Inherited it? Start with inherited mineral rights in Kansas.
Found in 1900 and 1904, these sprawling shallow fields produce from the Marmaton, Mulky coal, Mississippian and Arbuckle, and Peru-Sedan alone has made more than 26 million barrels.
Coalbed methane gas here fell from 86,115 Mcf in 2019 to 18,857 Mcf in 2025 as wells were plugged, so most Chautauqua checks today are oil.
Wherever your tract sits in Chautauqua County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
We buy in every Kansas county, including ones without a page here. See the full county index, or start with how to sell Kansas mineral rights.
Whether you need a probate, the affidavit and transfer on death routes, the dormant mineral rules, and where unpaid royalties go: inherited mineral rights in Kansas, what heirs should do.
What Kansas mineral rights are worth, information only, with this month's activity.
Everything a Kansas owner needs in one place: who owns what under state law, how royalties must be paid and by when, what a buyer can and cannot deduct, the tax treatment of a sale, and the deadlines that quietly cost people their minerals. Free, and no sign-up.
Read the Kansas guideEvery oil and gas operator in Kansas, with contact information, refreshed from the state regulator. Free to search, and useful whether or not you ever sell anything.
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Prefer the phone? Call or text 918-984-1645 and you will get Stephen, the owner, not a call center. If we miss you, we text back the same day.
In a hurry? Text a photo of a royalty check stub to 918-984-1645 and our preliminary offer puts a written number in front of you within about two business days. It holds for 7 while you decide.